Switching of magnetic domains in a noncollinear antiferromagnet at the nanoscale
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| author | Pandey, Atul Rigvedi, Prajwal Lesne, Edouard Deka, Jitul Yoon, Jiho Hoppe, Wolfgang Koerner, Chris Pal, Banabir Taylor, James M. Parkin, Stuart S. P. Woltersdorf, Georg |
| author_facet | Pandey, Atul Rigvedi, Prajwal Lesne, Edouard Deka, Jitul Yoon, Jiho Hoppe, Wolfgang Koerner, Chris Pal, Banabir Taylor, James M. Parkin, Stuart S. P. Woltersdorf, Georg |
| contents | Antiferromagnets that display very small stray magnetic field are ideal for spintronic applications. Of particular interest are non-collinear, chiral antiferromagnets of the type Mn3X (X=Sn, Ge), which display a large magnetotransport response that is correlated with their antiferromagnetic ordering. The ability to read out and manipulate this ordering is crucial for their integration into spintronic devices. These materials exhibit a tiny unbalanced magnetic moment such that a large external magnetic field can, in principle, be used to set the material into a single antiferromagnetic domain. However, in thin films of Mn3Sn, we find that such fields induce only a partial magnetic ordering. By detecting two orthogonal in-plane components of the magnetic order vector, we find that the non-switchable fraction has a unidirectional anisotropy. This also enables us to visualize switching along multiple easy axes in Mn3Sn. Studying the switching at the nanoscale allows us to correlate the pining behavior to crystal grain boundaries in the Mn3Sn nanowire structures. |
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| spellingShingle | Switching of magnetic domains in a noncollinear antiferromagnet at the nanoscale Pandey, Atul Rigvedi, Prajwal Lesne, Edouard Deka, Jitul Yoon, Jiho Hoppe, Wolfgang Koerner, Chris Pal, Banabir Taylor, James M. Parkin, Stuart S. P. Woltersdorf, Georg Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science Antiferromagnets that display very small stray magnetic field are ideal for spintronic applications. Of particular interest are non-collinear, chiral antiferromagnets of the type Mn3X (X=Sn, Ge), which display a large magnetotransport response that is correlated with their antiferromagnetic ordering. The ability to read out and manipulate this ordering is crucial for their integration into spintronic devices. These materials exhibit a tiny unbalanced magnetic moment such that a large external magnetic field can, in principle, be used to set the material into a single antiferromagnetic domain. However, in thin films of Mn3Sn, we find that such fields induce only a partial magnetic ordering. By detecting two orthogonal in-plane components of the magnetic order vector, we find that the non-switchable fraction has a unidirectional anisotropy. This also enables us to visualize switching along multiple easy axes in Mn3Sn. Studying the switching at the nanoscale allows us to correlate the pining behavior to crystal grain boundaries in the Mn3Sn nanowire structures. |
| title | Switching of magnetic domains in a noncollinear antiferromagnet at the nanoscale |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15533 |